Planning Process

AKS Engine features a lightweight process that emphasizes openness and ensures every community member can see project goals for the future.

The Role of Maintainers

Maintainers lead the AKS Engine project. Their duties include proposing the Roadmap, reviewing and integrating contributions and maintaining the vision of the project.

Open Roadmap

The AKS Engine Backlog is a community document. While Maintainers propose the Roadmap, it gets discussed and refined in Release Planning Meetings.

Contributing to the Roadmap

Proposals and issues can be opened by anyone. Every member of the community is welcome to participate in the discussion by providing feedback and/or offering counter-proposals.

Release Milestones

The Roadmap gets delivered progressively via the Release Schedule. Releases are defined during Release Planning Meetings and managed using GitHub Milestones which track specific deliverables and work-in-progress.

Release Planning Meetings

Major decisions affecting the Roadmap are discussed during Release Planning Meetings on the first Thursday of each month, aligned with the [Release Schedule][] and monthly objectives for the Microsoft AKS team.

Release Planning Meetings are not currently open to non-Microsoft contributors, but we may change this in the future.